Love Across Borders

Hearts Across Borders: A Guide to Loving a Nigerian is a heartfelt and practical relationship guide co-authored by Kasham Shawanma Keltuma, Ifeoma Grace-Yvonne Okonji and Titilola Adeseko. Blending their cultural insights with real world advice. In this book, you find the joys, challenges and unique perspective of dating and loving a Nigerian Partner in today's globalized world. With warm humor and authenticity, the authors draw from personal experiences, research and shared stories to help readers navigate the cultural diversities that usually shape Nigerian relationships. This book is for you if you are married, dating, engaged to a Nigerian. It is also for you if you are simply curious about what it would be like to date a Nigerian or you have a friend or family dating one and you want to dig deeper into the Nigerian worldview in matters of the heart. This book is about romance and celebrates diversity, relationship building, long distance relationship and show that love transcends borders!

Hearts Across Borders: A Guide to Loving a Nigerian is a heartfelt and practical relationship guide co-authored by Kasham Shawanma Keltuma, Ifeoma Grace-Yvonne Okonji and Titilola Adeseko. Blending their cultural insights with real world advice. In this book, you find the joys, challenges and unique perspective of dating and loving a Nigerian Partner in today's globalized world. With warm humor and authenticity, the authors draw from personal experiences, research and shared stories to help readers navigate the cultural diversities that usually shape Nigerian relationships. This book is for you if you are married, dating, engaged to a Nigerian. It is also for you if you are simply curious about what it would be like to date a Nigerian or you have a friend or family dating one and you want to dig deeper into the Nigerian worldview in matters of the heart. This book is about romance and celebrates diversity, relationship building, long distance relationship and show that love transcends borders!

We are told that love conquers all, but what happens when you don't have the right passport? With deep empathy, rigorous reporting, and the irresistible perspective of a true romantic, journalist Anna Lekas Miller tells the stories of couples around the world who must confront Kafkaesque immigration systems to be together-as she did to be with her partner. Written with suspenseful storytelling worthy of the greatest love stories, Love Across Borders takes readers across contentious frontiers around the world, from Turkey to Iraq, Syria to Greece, Mexico to the United States, to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing people. Lekas Miller tells her own story of meeting and falling deeply in love with Salem Rizk, in Istanbul, where they were both reporting on the Syrian War. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasn't allowed to stay in the country, nor could he safely return to Syria. He was a man without a country. So Lekas Miller had to decide her next move: she has an American passport, but deep personal ties to the Middle East, and knew it was unfair that Salem couldn't travel freely the way she could. More important, she loved him. Over the next few years, as they navigated Salem's asylum claims, the United States' Muslim ban, and labyrinthine regulations in several different countries, Lekas Miller learned about-and bonded with-other people whose spouses had been deported, who found love in refugee camps, whose differing immigration statuses caused complicated power dynamics and financial hardship or threatened the wellbeing of their children. Here, offering a uniquely diverse, international, and intimate look at the global immigration crisis, she interweaves these rich, complicated love stories with a fascinating look at the history of passports (a surprisingly recent institution), the legacy of colonialism, and the discriminatory laws shaping how people move through the world every day. Ultimately, she builds a powerful, moving case for a borderless society-one where a border patrol agent can't keep anyone's love story from its happy ending.

We are told that love conquers all, but what happens when you don't have the right passport? With deep empathy, rigorous reporting, and the irresistible perspective of a true romantic, journalist Anna Lekas Miller tells the stories of couples around the world who must confront Kafkaesque immigration systems to be together-as she did to be with her partner. Written with suspenseful storytelling worthy of the greatest love stories, Love Across Borders takes readers across contentious frontiers around the world, from Turkey to Iraq, Syria to Greece, Mexico to the United States, to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing people. Lekas Miller tells her own story of meeting and falling deeply in love with Salem Rizk, in Istanbul, where they were both reporting on the Syrian War. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasn't allowed to stay in the country, nor could he safely return to Syria. He was a man without a country. So Lekas Miller had to decide her next move: she has an American passport, but deep personal ties to the Middle East, and knew it was unfair that Salem couldn't travel freely the way she could. More important, she loved him. Over the next few years, as they navigated Salem's asylum claims, the United States' Muslim ban, and labyrinthine regulations in several different countries, Lekas Miller learned about-and bonded with-other people whose spouses had been deported, who found love in refugee camps, whose differing immigration statuses caused complicated power dynamics and financial hardship or threatened the wellbeing of their children. Here, offering a uniquely diverse, international, and intimate look at the global immigration crisis, she interweaves these rich, complicated love stories with a fascinating look at the history of passports (a surprisingly recent institution), the legacy of colonialism, and the discriminatory laws shaping how people move through the world every day. Ultimately, she builds a powerful, moving case for a borderless society-one where a border patrol agent can't keep anyone's love story from its happy ending.